I read the license document. The OEM license extends to the user for that specific computer, a computer cannot own a license after all, you're fairly correct that far.
The problem is when you sell the computer, you have to keep the OEM license, the sticker and the license key with the computer but you also have to explicitly agree to transfer the license: "you may transfer the license to use the software directly to another user, only with the licensed device... Before any permitted transfer, the other party must agree that this agreement applies to the transfer and use of the software."
Once the computer+license was sold, the restore disk went along with the computer+license: No, the case surrounds the electronics recycler selling the restore discs separately in order to 'help' people that no longer had said restore discs.
You can't sell the discs without the hardware which is what this person was doing. He wasn't selling used computers with a copy of the restore disc, he was selling the restore discs without the hardware which according to the OEM license is illegal.
And given I suggested Linux, I've not run Microsoft Windows since RHL (not RHEL) 5.0
Not so fast there. You still don't own the copyright to the book and you didn't get a license to the book (unless it was an e-book). Microsoft only sells you a license to use the book, they don't actually sell the book.
The OEM license only extends to the original manufacturer and its first consumer or another consumer they directly transfer the license to (both parties have to explicitly agree to the transfer and the original owner is seemingly liable for compliance of its next owner) and the hardware has to stay with the software.
If he didn't have a piece of paper showing he got a license for every single piece of hardware, he has no rights to sell the software. You can't even sell an original OEM install disc without the original hardware.
If you want to sell Windows computers, shell out for a license, it would only double the cost of a second hand computer. For all others, there is Linux or other alternatives.
It says "Telegram Flaw Used For Cryptocurrency Mining" implies that Telegram has a flaw that allows the clients to mine for cryptocurrency without the users' consent.
Being able to screw around with text and fonts and sending someone a link isn't really an "exploit". There are hundreds of URL shorteners that will do that for you. If the user clicks, downloads and then chmod +x an executable (whatever the Windows equivalent is) then that's a problem with the user.
The summary and post it links to implies the Telegram client is executing cryptomining code on its own. Sending a message backwards or forwards is not really an exploit, it's annoying or funny depending on the circumstance. But where is the option to send, link to or execute code?
Regards the technical stuff: Yes, it would be nice, but on the other nobody cares about it. We have Infiniband which allows you to scale to full bus speeds between 'regular' nodes. Having 1000s of CPU in a single node is expensive because nobody needs it except for a very few, having a bunch of cheap COTS systems linked together does the job.
Regards film, "they" also say stuff about Monster cables. You can easily do the calculations, but you can find tests through Google which indicate depending on the quality of the film, lighting levels, lenses etc you get anywhere from 4 to 20MP for 35mm film. 144MP on 35mm film is unlikely, that is nearly 350 lines per mm, they didn't have nano-dots to put on film or printouts for that matter in the 60's, no lenses would even be able to resolve detail to that level.
If Spectrum wants to get money for expanding broadband as they promised and legally obliged to do, they should take it out of the 10% taxes they levy for that purpose.
It's not like it is going to be doom and gloom for weather prediction. Most of those cuts should be in management, even though they have a $1B budget and the meteorologists are coming in at $28k/year salary, they're not exactly attracting talent.
How about we start with the union reps, they are collecting $50/pay period and couldn't even negotiate a deal to prevent this or keep the service from becoming top-heavy. Then remove every manager that is not directly managing 15 or more employees.
If you can backdoor cryptomining into a "secure messaging" service, you can backdoor pretty much everything. I'm sure that any US-based service has similar "bugs". How hard is it to create an application that communicates with a web service without the requirement to run random code? Why is there even a code interpreter in a "secure messaging app"?
Give me my IRC and PGP, at least I can read through and guarantee the code is clear in a matter of hours.
And then bridges collapse because they concrete rotted away and nobody fixed it.
Economy 101: You invest in your own economy, you increase the value of your country, you increase work force that spends money in the economy, this allows you to practically print money. It's how the space race (NASA) created $14 for every dollar it spent (ask Neil DeGrasse Tyson) or how having the Interstate project returns a double digit percentage every year on the investment.
Imagine our modern economy (delivery of groceries to your door) would look like on dirt roads.
1) Already exists on most computers where you have more than one CPU on the board and multi-core CPU's also work that way on a chip-level. Massive amounts of CPU without memory on a local bus is not useful for general purpose computing though.
2) Somewhat exists in modern memory models but having the CPU on-die is both expensive and unnecessary since RAM has been getting faster. It does exist now in SSDs, you can even load Linux on some of them.
3) What's the use in that. There are dedicated NoSQL appliances that do this but having it on-chip sounds pretty useless except for very specific use cases and we have ASICs for that.
4) NeXTStep and its descendant Openstep and Mac OS X use that everything-as-a-document model
5) IPv6 still allows for that, Apple has it implemented in iOS - you can get calls from WiFi to LTE handed over without a problem. Most higher end phones can do it.
6) As you said yourself, the yields are high enough that faulty chips on wafers are no longer a problem seeking a solution, chips have gotten so fast we now have a problem with the latency of the speed of light and heat dissipation across those distances
7) Cherry MX
All your optionals also exist, I can plug in an ASIC on my motherboard, multicast down the line exists, but has gone mostly away in favor of on-demand content like Netflix but at the carrier-level, we still use multicast for those exact purposes.
These days ASICs come with thousands of CPUs but it's not very useful to have thousands of general purpose CPU's (due to the limitations of the speed of light).
Also, buy a quality digital camera, they are indistinguishable from film, store in RAW format, have HDR and the very expensive ones even allow you to store depth information.
Most algorithms I've seen convert to black and white before further classification. Color is mostly useless and quite expensive (4x as much data) to computers that use geometric features to classify pictures.
I read the summary, which said PopcornTime is an "authorized" service. Being authorized means per definition it is not illegal and calling it a service means someone else is running/providing the service and you're paying ($0 or more) to consume it. If it's a service, you can presume to be paying for the licensing.
It does. Check apt or yum for example. This is about code thrown together in Go and similar problems exist in lots of JavaScript code managers, I'm sure those languages are so secure they don't need to be checked.
You forgot the sarcasm tags. The Equifax breach has been fully forgotten by the public, the media has fully focused the public on some assholes distant divorce and whether or not our president had chocolate milk or almond milk this morning.
The package manager and dependency programmer should check either the hash or another cryptographic property of the code to authenticate the code.
This is the same as someone re-registering an expired domain or simply poisoning the repository or even hacking the dns in your router. Unless you can check you have an authentic package, signed by a known author, you're purely depending on the goodwill of the Internet.
I would think this is kind of mandatory but I guess Go/JavaScript developers don't need to think about security, the language/platform is secure.
If PopcornTime is an authorized streaming service, then he is simply reviewing a service. So in Denmark you can't write reviews about software that streams movies?
You don't need drugs to kill yourself. There are quicker, faster, less painful and way more fun ways to die.
I would highly recommend you call the national suicide hotline or seek counseling first though, if after all is said and done, you still feel you would rather not be alive, I think it should be perfectly legal to do that, especially if it prevents further pain and suffering in the person's life, but I would make sure that everyone has the option to at least get counseling and other mental health support.
You're never overqualified to do line work and other day labour. As long as you can pick up a fryer or stand on your feet for 8 hours, you're hired. You don't show up the next day and they really won't care. Those are the jobs these people are competing for and it's highly unlikely they'll do any better than store manager.
You cannot go into a McDonalds and apply for a store manager job with a managers' resume, they know that whenever you get a better offer, you'll be out of the door, they want these people that have worked themselves up from fry cook because they know that's the highest they can possibly attain without further education and they're more likely to stay on in that position, providing stability for the franchise.
The rate at which either happens is different. Also, when an established educated person gets laid off, they'll have a hell of a lot better chances than an uneducated person in a poor job market.
As much as we like to see equality for all, it's still all about the economies of simple Darwinian survival and that won't change until you have a free energy market.
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Not necessarily, the SCOTUS has already agreed with Microsoft on this, Microsoft is selling licenses, not the actual software.
I read the license document. The OEM license extends to the user for that specific computer, a computer cannot own a license after all, you're fairly correct that far.
The problem is when you sell the computer, you have to keep the OEM license, the sticker and the license key with the computer but you also have to explicitly agree to transfer the license: "you may transfer the license to use the software directly to another user, only with the licensed device ... Before any permitted transfer, the other party must agree that this agreement applies to the transfer and use of the software."
Once the computer+license was sold, the restore disk went along with the computer+license:
No, the case surrounds the electronics recycler selling the restore discs separately in order to 'help' people that no longer had said restore discs.
You can't sell the discs without the hardware which is what this person was doing. He wasn't selling used computers with a copy of the restore disc, he was selling the restore discs without the hardware which according to the OEM license is illegal.
And given I suggested Linux, I've not run Microsoft Windows since RHL (not RHEL) 5.0
Not so fast there. You still don't own the copyright to the book and you didn't get a license to the book (unless it was an e-book). Microsoft only sells you a license to use the book, they don't actually sell the book.
The OEM license only extends to the original manufacturer and its first consumer or another consumer they directly transfer the license to (both parties have to explicitly agree to the transfer and the original owner is seemingly liable for compliance of its next owner) and the hardware has to stay with the software.
If he didn't have a piece of paper showing he got a license for every single piece of hardware, he has no rights to sell the software. You can't even sell an original OEM install disc without the original hardware.
If you want to sell Windows computers, shell out for a license, it would only double the cost of a second hand computer. For all others, there is Linux or other alternatives.
This has been known since ~2016:
https://winaero.com/blog/fix-w...
TL;DR:
If a vendor wants to promote an app, then they pay Microsoft to push it to all Windows PCs.
Ah, you mean like a Rolodex.
It says "Telegram Flaw Used For Cryptocurrency Mining" implies that Telegram has a flaw that allows the clients to mine for cryptocurrency without the users' consent.
Being able to screw around with text and fonts and sending someone a link isn't really an "exploit". There are hundreds of URL shorteners that will do that for you. If the user clicks, downloads and then chmod +x an executable (whatever the Windows equivalent is) then that's a problem with the user.
The summary and post it links to implies the Telegram client is executing cryptomining code on its own. Sending a message backwards or forwards is not really an exploit, it's annoying or funny depending on the circumstance. But where is the option to send, link to or execute code?
I wrote my own IRC client on a 80286 running DR-DOS.
Regards the technical stuff: Yes, it would be nice, but on the other nobody cares about it. We have Infiniband which allows you to scale to full bus speeds between 'regular' nodes. Having 1000s of CPU in a single node is expensive because nobody needs it except for a very few, having a bunch of cheap COTS systems linked together does the job.
Regards film, "they" also say stuff about Monster cables. You can easily do the calculations, but you can find tests through Google which indicate depending on the quality of the film, lighting levels, lenses etc you get anywhere from 4 to 20MP for 35mm film. 144MP on 35mm film is unlikely, that is nearly 350 lines per mm, they didn't have nano-dots to put on film or printouts for that matter in the 60's, no lenses would even be able to resolve detail to that level.
If Spectrum wants to get money for expanding broadband as they promised and legally obliged to do, they should take it out of the 10% taxes they levy for that purpose.
It's not like it is going to be doom and gloom for weather prediction. Most of those cuts should be in management, even though they have a $1B budget and the meteorologists are coming in at $28k/year salary, they're not exactly attracting talent.
How about we start with the union reps, they are collecting $50/pay period and couldn't even negotiate a deal to prevent this or keep the service from becoming top-heavy. Then remove every manager that is not directly managing 15 or more employees.
If you can backdoor cryptomining into a "secure messaging" service, you can backdoor pretty much everything. I'm sure that any US-based service has similar "bugs". How hard is it to create an application that communicates with a web service without the requirement to run random code? Why is there even a code interpreter in a "secure messaging app"?
Give me my IRC and PGP, at least I can read through and guarantee the code is clear in a matter of hours.
And then bridges collapse because they concrete rotted away and nobody fixed it.
Economy 101: You invest in your own economy, you increase the value of your country, you increase work force that spends money in the economy, this allows you to practically print money. It's how the space race (NASA) created $14 for every dollar it spent (ask Neil DeGrasse Tyson) or how having the Interstate project returns a double digit percentage every year on the investment.
Imagine our modern economy (delivery of groceries to your door) would look like on dirt roads.
1) Already exists on most computers where you have more than one CPU on the board and multi-core CPU's also work that way on a chip-level. Massive amounts of CPU without memory on a local bus is not useful for general purpose computing though.
2) Somewhat exists in modern memory models but having the CPU on-die is both expensive and unnecessary since RAM has been getting faster. It does exist now in SSDs, you can even load Linux on some of them.
3) What's the use in that. There are dedicated NoSQL appliances that do this but having it on-chip sounds pretty useless except for very specific use cases and we have ASICs for that.
4) NeXTStep and its descendant Openstep and Mac OS X use that everything-as-a-document model
5) IPv6 still allows for that, Apple has it implemented in iOS - you can get calls from WiFi to LTE handed over without a problem. Most higher end phones can do it.
6) As you said yourself, the yields are high enough that faulty chips on wafers are no longer a problem seeking a solution, chips have gotten so fast we now have a problem with the latency of the speed of light and heat dissipation across those distances
7) Cherry MX
All your optionals also exist, I can plug in an ASIC on my motherboard, multicast down the line exists, but has gone mostly away in favor of on-demand content like Netflix but at the carrier-level, we still use multicast for those exact purposes.
These days ASICs come with thousands of CPUs but it's not very useful to have thousands of general purpose CPU's (due to the limitations of the speed of light).
Also, buy a quality digital camera, they are indistinguishable from film, store in RAW format, have HDR and the very expensive ones even allow you to store depth information.
Most algorithms I've seen convert to black and white before further classification. Color is mostly useless and quite expensive (4x as much data) to computers that use geometric features to classify pictures.
I read the summary, which said PopcornTime is an "authorized" service. Being authorized means per definition it is not illegal and calling it a service means someone else is running/providing the service and you're paying ($0 or more) to consume it. If it's a service, you can presume to be paying for the licensing.
It does. Check apt or yum for example. This is about code thrown together in Go and similar problems exist in lots of JavaScript code managers, I'm sure those languages are so secure they don't need to be checked.
You forgot the sarcasm tags. The Equifax breach has been fully forgotten by the public, the media has fully focused the public on some assholes distant divorce and whether or not our president had chocolate milk or almond milk this morning.
The package manager and dependency programmer should check either the hash or another cryptographic property of the code to authenticate the code.
This is the same as someone re-registering an expired domain or simply poisoning the repository or even hacking the dns in your router. Unless you can check you have an authentic package, signed by a known author, you're purely depending on the goodwill of the Internet.
I would think this is kind of mandatory but I guess Go/JavaScript developers don't need to think about security, the language/platform is secure.
If PopcornTime is an authorized streaming service, then he is simply reviewing a service. So in Denmark you can't write reviews about software that streams movies?
You don't need drugs to kill yourself. There are quicker, faster, less painful and way more fun ways to die.
I would highly recommend you call the national suicide hotline or seek counseling first though, if after all is said and done, you still feel you would rather not be alive, I think it should be perfectly legal to do that, especially if it prevents further pain and suffering in the person's life, but I would make sure that everyone has the option to at least get counseling and other mental health support.
You're never overqualified to do line work and other day labour. As long as you can pick up a fryer or stand on your feet for 8 hours, you're hired. You don't show up the next day and they really won't care. Those are the jobs these people are competing for and it's highly unlikely they'll do any better than store manager.
You cannot go into a McDonalds and apply for a store manager job with a managers' resume, they know that whenever you get a better offer, you'll be out of the door, they want these people that have worked themselves up from fry cook because they know that's the highest they can possibly attain without further education and they're more likely to stay on in that position, providing stability for the franchise.
The rate at which either happens is different. Also, when an established educated person gets laid off, they'll have a hell of a lot better chances than an uneducated person in a poor job market.
As much as we like to see equality for all, it's still all about the economies of simple Darwinian survival and that won't change until you have a free energy market.